- Patch #216072 by recidive, David Rothstein, ptalindstrom et al: switched from numeric block IDs to string IDs.

  The short explanation is that Drupal uses a lot of numeric deltas in the block system; blocks are identified by the 'module' and the 'delta'. In early Drupal, delta was numeric, but somewhere along the line it was changed to be possibly a string. In modern Drupal, block overrides are easily done via block-MODULE-DELTA.tpl.php.  The primary motivation to switch to string IDs everywhere is to make these deltas friendlier to themers:

    block-user-0.tpl.php --> block-user-navigation.tpl.php
    block-user-1.tpl.php --> block-user-login.tpl.php

  You get the picture.

- Patch #30984 by webchick, keith.smith, kkaefer, Crell et al: provide descriptions for permissions on the permission administration page.

#208858 by theborg, gdevlugt: fix forum node and comment counting, taking term revisioning into account

#214058 by catch, Arancaytar: forum form alter was mistakenly dropping the parent field in all taxonomy forms

#207779 report by meba, patch by myself: missing plural formatting in forum module, and a counter display fix as well

#153998 by David_Rothstein and myself: clean up permissions in book, blog, blogapi, forum and locale modules

#206670 by keith.smith and myself: node type names have their underscores converted to hyphens in node/add links

#203582 by David_Rothstein: some core hook_access() implementations are not using the passed in account

#186546 by bjaspan: fix missing forum vocabulary when people turned on forum module, but never visited any pages in Drupal 5 and they upgrade to Drupal 6 which does this much better

#99947 by neclimdul, Sutharsan, keith.smith: forum module help text and form description update, removing reference to other forum software as well

#200069 by keith.smith: new standard for 'more information' links in module help texts, as the handbook we referred to before was renamed

#197297 by DanW (as GHOP 17), and keith.smith: clean up lots of help texts, update to drag and drop functionality, drupal.module removal, etc

#176282 by Desbeers: forum taxonomy was required for non-forum node types, when enabled for forum inclusion

 - whitespaces at end of lines
 - indentation
 - control structure usage
 - whitespace in empty lines
 - phpdoc comment formatting

#194075 by neclimdul: nodeapi load should return an array by documentation, and forum's nodeapi load returns an object

- Patch #192242 by catch, quicksketch, webchick, keith et all: usability improvements for the vocabulary/term forms.

#177497 by chx and Desbeers: revive Drupal 5's menu_set_location() functionality by introducing menu_set_item() (for consistency in function naming), thus fixing a regression in the current development code. Also fixing some misuse of menu_set_location() by using drupal_set_breadcrumb() instead.

#72487 by chx, pwolanin and moshe weitzman: let node_access() work on arbitrary users, so independent user access checks can be done in a request

#175979 by Desbeers: forum module does not need to call node_prepare anymore, because it is already done

- Patch #180432 by hunmonk, sun, et al: make comment settings per node type.  This is a new feature that slipped in because it is required for the project module on drupal.org.

#174343 by Shiny: move JOIN condition to ON clause in forum_nodeapi, so our SQL is standards compatible

#6162 by various people: actually point new anchors to the page the first new comment is displayed (in a multipage comment view)

#53905 by fax8, Gurpartap Singh and dvessel: give meaningful names to term variables in forum templates and add unique IDs for easier themeing

#161107 by fwalch and bragon: actually implement the missing forum_term_load to work behind the %forum_term menu item resolving calls

- Patch #168028 by dvessler, merlinofchaos, pwolanin et al: both theme functions and templates may need include files. Flush your caches.